Thank you Wanda and TSTLTDTD [tsm-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM],

I forgot to mention the following.  We completely understand that this
data will most likely be unrecoverable for the sake of Application and
OS versions.  This is essentially a stop gap until a "real" Application
level archiving solution can be put in place...   I know its just Ugly!

Thanks again for your replies, hope you don't end up having to do the
same... 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Wanda Prather
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 2:13 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Retain All Existing TSM Backup / Archive Data for
10Yrs

Not necessary.

You can't rebind a file that has been archived to a different management
class, but if you change the RULE the file is bound to (i.e., the
archive copy group retention setting), that change does indeed take
effect, and will do what you ask.

That said, here's my plug for content management:

Will anybody be able to FIND anything in these archives 10 years from
now?
With TSM archiving, all you have to look at is file names.  If your mgmt
wants to be able to locate any INFORMATION 10 years from now, some sort
of content management application is usually more appropriate.  You get
some indexing and some organization and some search capabilities for the
data, not just the host name and filenames for client nodes that no
longer exist...

W



On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Hart, Charles A <charles_hart AT uhc DOT com>
wrote:

> Ok, we have a requirements to retain all Backup / Archive data that 
> exists in our TSM environment today for 10 years.  There's a few
"ugly"
> options, but would it be possible to do the following?
>
> Export node from Existing TSM servers to New TSM Server with Archive 
> And Backup Copy Groups set to 10 years retention.  I know that just 
> increasing the Archive Copy group on the existing TSM Server's 
> Archives to 10YR will not re-bind those Archive objects, but what if 
> you export a node to a new TSM server with Longer retention Archive 
> Copy Groups will the Archives bind to the new Archive Copy groups on
the new TSM server?
> (I'm hoping so)
>
> Appreciate the input!
>
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